God is the best explanation for the fine-tuning of the universe for life

“The more I examine the universe, and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the Universe in some sense must have known we were coming.“ – Physicist Freeman Dyson “A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology.” – Astronomer Fred Hoyle As modern […]

God is the best explanation for the beginning of the universe (the kalam cosmological argument)

Welcome to the first of several posts on making the case for God’s existence and involvement in the world, and in our lives personally. In this series, I want to discuss human experience and observation from many different fields, and how God is the best explanation for it all. This is a more hard-science-themed post, and a few others will […]

Is your view of God big enough to encompass the entire universe…and all the life that may be in it?

On Thursday, NASA is expected to hold a press conference about a new find made by its Kepler planet-hunting telescope. It’s possible it could involve finding an extrasolar planet that’s very similar to Earth. This isn’t 20th-century science fiction anymore. Gone are the days when talk of extraterrestrial life centered around UFOs and abductions by little green men. It’s no […]